Florida mass shooting: Cops reveal school bus dropped off children at the site before gunfire began
LAKELAND, FLORIDA: Lakeland police authority has given an update on the Lakeland mass shooting and confirmed at least 11 people were wounded in a drive-by shooting. The incident took place on Monday, January 30, around 3.45 pm in central Florida, in which no arrests have been made as of now. The latest report claims that a school bus had dropped off children at the location of the shooting just a minute before the rampage began.
Sam Taylor, Lakeland Police Chief in a press conference on Monday told that two of the victims in a mass shooting are in critical condition, while other victims suffered injuries that are not life-threatening. The authorities informed that the male victims were between the age group of 20 and 35. The manhunt is ongoing as the shooters are still on the loose as of now.
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Manhunt continues to look for the shooters
According to the police, the shooters drove a dark-blue sedan with tinted windows and a temporary tag. The car didn’t stop during the shooting and only slowed down while four people fired shots from all four windows of the sedan, according to CBS News. The officials believe that a drug deal may have been taking place during the time of the shooting as marijuana was recovered from the crime scene, which is 30 miles east of Tampa.
'No correlation'
Police arrived at the scene only a minute after the shooting began and found three injured victims initially. The other victims were taken privately to a hospital by authorities. The shooting occurred near Iowa Avenue North and Plum Street, MEAWW reported.
Many experts are slamming weak gun laws in the region, and some are defending sighting there’s ‘no correlation.’
In an unrelated incident, a mass shooting was reported from an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood, where three people were killed and four others wounded on Saturday, January 28. Notably, this was the sixth mass shooting incident reported in the Californian state this month.
